Chinese "kanji"

Benjamin Barrett gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Fri Oct 7 02:11:09 UTC 2005


I've never seen the kanas juxtaposed with different orderings. Does
Nakanishi say anything further about it? BB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Joel S. Berson
>
> True, according to
> http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2047.html:  "Katakana is mainly
> used for writing loan words and the names of persons and
> geographical places that can't be written in kanji."  In
> passing, my source
> (Nakanishi) says that the two syllabaries have different
> orderings, while this site displays them identically.



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